{"id":116,"date":"2004-09-14T00:41:58","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T04:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=116"},"modified":"2004-09-17T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T15:15:52","slug":"welcome-to-hell-there-is-no-internet-access-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Hell.  There is no internet access here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that yes, there is a place in Michigan called Hell.  And in my opinion, it really is Hell, considering that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/2004\/livingston\/0409\/12\/b04l-270776.htm\">it doesn&#8217;t even have so much as a local dialup internet connection<\/a>, much less broadband:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It takes Emily McDonough as long as 16 minutes to access her e-mail account from her home using her dial-up Internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>She lives in the Kirtland Hills subdivision west of the small hamlet of Hell, which is far off the beaten path of Livingston County&#8217;s population centers. Her computer makes a long distance call each time she accesses the Internet, costing her about $60 per month to use it once a week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yikes.  I just can&#8217;t imagine what living there would be like.  Amazing how something can become so ubiquitous in just a decade that you can&#8217;t imagine life without it&#8230; and here is Hell, living just fine without internet access.  Well, almost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One town does not even have a local dialup connection.  And the place is indeed called Hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}